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UPSC researcher receives a 5 million Formas grant
Professor Harry X Wu has received a 5 million grant from the research council Formas for the project "Urval för elitpopulationer av tall för uthållig produktion av nya bioenergi- och...
View ArticleUnderstanding the environmental regulation of the annual growth cycle in trees
Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation has granted 39, 7 million SEK and considered the application lead by Rishikesh Bhalerao, UPSC, as one of 24 funded research projects that have the possibility to...
View ArticleEurope’s leading plant scientists call for urgent action to defend research
More than twenty of Europe's most prominent plant scientists today (Thursday 30 October 2014) signed a joint letter warning that Europe may lose its research lead unless plant science is adequately...
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Professor Gunnar Öquist conferred Japanese Order
Professor Gunnar Öqvist, Professor emeritus at Umeå Plant Science Centre, Umeå University and the former Chairman of the Royal Academy of Sciences was recently conferred the Order of the rising sun,...
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The Danish Research Foundation honours Gunnar Öquist
Gunnar Öquist, professor at UPSC, was honoured by the Danish National Research Foundation with the Royal Order of the Danneborg. He received the Order of Knight for his "invaluable contribution to...
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Faith cannot replace science
Debate article in Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet, 2014-12-16Åsa Strand and Stefan Jansson, both professors at Umeå Plant Science Centre, are two of the six leading scientists who criticize Swedish...
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Delphine Gendre receives Agrisera Prize 2014
The 2014 Agrisera prize is awarded to Delphine Gendre for her excellent scientific contributions involving highly skilled work looking at protein trafficking. This has lead to important publications in...
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Four UPSC Scientists will receive prizes from the Scandinavian Plant...
During its 26th annual meeting 9-13 August in Stockholm, the Scandinavian Plant Physiology Society (SPPS) will grant four prizes to UPSC scientists.Gunnar Öquist, professor emeritus at the Department...
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Fascination of Plants Day 23 May 2015
The third Fascination of Plants Day will be celebrated in Umeå onMay 23, 2015 at Umeå Arts Campus. Plant scientists invite you to 25 stations with experiments and demonstrations. Learn more about the...
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WWSC Academy-UPSC Meeting, August 31st – September 2nd
Thirty graduate students from the Wallenberg Wood Science Center Academy, accompanied by their coordinator Prof. Paul Gatenholm from Chalmers will be visiting UPSC during three days in the early fall....
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The UPRA becomes the INUPRAG
The Franco-Swedish laboratory without walls "UPRA" opens at CRAG, a Spanish research center.In 2005, the connections between the research projects of the UPSC (Umeå Plant Science Center, Plant Science...
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“Green light in the tunnel”! Swedish Board of Agriculture: a...
The Swedish Board of Agriculture has, after questions from researchers in Umeå and Uppsala in Sweden, confirmed the interpretation that some plants in which the genome has been edited using the...
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Two Gunnar Öquist Fellows 2015 at UPSC!
Gunnar Öquist, Olivier Keech, Judith Felten, Carl Kempe at the prize ceremony (from left, picture Johan Gunséus)[15-12-03] For the fourth time Carl Kempe, the chair of the Kempe Foundations, presented...
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Top ratings for UPSC Berzelii Centre for Forest Biotechnology
The third evaluation report for centres financed by Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems (VINNOVA) and the Swedish Research Council (VR) is now published and ranks UPSC Berzelii Centre at...
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Ove Nilsson becomes the first EMBO Member at SLU Umeå
The “European Molecular Biology Organization“ (EMBO) announced today the election of 58 new EMBO Members. Ove Nilsson, director at Umeå Plant Science Centre (UPSC) and SLU in Umeå, is one of the...
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UPSC-Professor appointed Forest Biotechnologist of the Year
[2016-05-26] Stefan Jansson, a professor at Umeå University has been appointed 2015 Forest Biotechnologist of the Year by the Institute of Forest Biosciences (IFB). IFB is an international organisation...
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What is a GMO? – Stefan Jansson has talked about it at TEDxUmeå2016
Stefan Jansson was one of the speakers at the third TEDxUmeå meeting at the 11th of May 2016. You can now watch his talk with the title “To be or not be a GMO, that is the question” under the following...
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VINNOVA grants the UPSC Berzelii Centre for Forest Biotechnology a five-year...
[2016-06-08] VINNOVA, Sweden’s Innovation Agency, has decided to continue funding the activities of the UPSC Berzelii Centre for Forest Biotechnology for five more years (2017-2021). The UPSC Berzelii...
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‘Nanowood’ – Formas grants an interdisciplinary project placed at the...
Totte Niittylä, Associate Professor at the Umeå Plant Science Centre, has received a 5-year grant with a budget of little over 10 million SEK from the Swedish Research Council Formas. His project...
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The UPSC PhD students and Postdocs organised with great success their first...
[2016-08-26] The UPSC PhD and Postdoc Retreat 2016 took place last week in Skeppsvik Herrgård, close to Umeå. During two days the PhD students and Postdocs discussed their research, learned about...
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